Author of the Queen City Boys books

stiches, grapes, cakes and frogs

The black dress is finished. I put the pictures up on Flickr a couple days ago, but I forgot to post here. I’m very happy with how it fits and how comfortable it is. I’d like to make another in a print. I’m thinking something like this:

Maybe it’s too much? Or maybe I just don’t like that black background. I wish I could find something like it with a brown or muted blue background. I think two of that dress, basically in black, would be too much. The lovely burgundy muslin is probably unwearable for me. I swear I preshrunk the fabric, but after I washed it it’s about four inches shorter. Still a great dress, I just need to give it to someone shorter than me (unlikely) or someone who is comfortable wearing things shorter than I wear them (likely). So maybe I could just make a second dress in a color? Though I really like the idea of a pattern. Hmmmm. I like the idea of a border print too, but those seem to be hard to come by.

My Colorado Rebecca (as distinguished from my other Rebeccas) has a new blog about her adventures with wine. No, no, not in a drunken shenanigans kind of way. More of a ‘follow along as I learn about this’ kind of way. She’s at Adventures of a Wine Noob. Go check her out.

For the last two days my hair has looked fantastic. This is because I haven’t been out of the house or seen anyone. Tomorrow it will surely go back to frizzy madness before it’s time to go to work.

I am recovering okay from the dentist stuff. I had a rough morning. And an afternoon trip back to the dentist to get a tiny bit more patching up. An evening with painkillers on the couch watching old standbys has helped a lot. My chin hurts. I won’t be surprised if it comes up bruised. My gums are bruised and my lips. My teeth don’t hurt so much any more. Am certainly on the mend. I kind of want to go run around tomorrow (the couch gets old after a while), but I will refrain so I can be good for work tomorrow night and healthy for the weekend. So instead of errands and work, my choices for tomorrow are watching the most recent Bond movie or catching up on Mad Men (I haven’t even watched season 2 yet, ack! 3 is about to start).

I’ve posted before about the rainbow cupcakes. Every time I think about making this it’s usually too late at night to get the ingredients I’d need. Some day though, there will be rainbow cupcakes. And now I have a new obsession: cake pops. (Also go here and scroll down and see all the many delightfully decorated cake pops.)

Libelle just went outside to scare away the very loud frog that was on the porch. Or maybe it was a bird. Mostly likely a frog. Or some sort of alien hybrid frogbird. In any case it was loud and annoying and seems to be gone now. Oh, wait, I spoke too soon. Stupid rain. Stupid frogs!! You stay in the gully. Don’t come on the porch!